Star A Solaris Administrator Looks at OpenSolaris
Linked by Robert Escue on Wed 4th Jun 2008 05:06 UTC
SUN Microsystems Let's take a closer look at OpenSolaris, particularly its use of ZFS, network problems that people have reported, the use of bash, and differences between OpenSolaris and Solaris and Solaris Express. Note: This is the latest article in our OSNews Article Contest.
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jjgorsky
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2008-06-05

Yes it is clear you don't get Sun marketing. Solaris 10 was being developed for years while Solaris 9 was in the market. Sun does that all the time. Nevada is being developed while Solaris 10 is the shipping release. Fixes get backported to the current release. Many Nevada features have been backported to Solaris 10 so have bug fixes.


I'll accept that's my failure. I don't care. Sun needs to win me over. They can't prescribe homework and expect me to say oh clearly Linux sucks. Why should I bother trying to figure out what the brand name is that I want?

This is not a new problem with confusing branding/versioning by Sun. Java. JavaScript. Java Desktop System?! Java 1.0...1.1...2...6...7?!

Normal software has stable/unstable/development. You would think Ian Murdoch would have remembered that from Debian.

"As it stands Solaris 10 is languishing and no one is fixing it. Instead they are working on Longhorn/DukeNukemForever/Daikatana/Solaris11.


Really! Solaris 10 updates are constantly released. Solaris 10 Update 5 being the latest. Which means 5 updates have been released.

Solaris 10 has had 5 updates so far (service packs in Microsoft parlance). Mac OS X Leopard has had 3 till date and it wasn't released that long ago. "

Wait, so are updates good or bad? They are good when Solaris has them and bad when Apple has them. Normal Sun logic.

How about this. XP, MS managed to fit most of a userland on top of NT. OS X, Apple built an entire f'in OS But Solaris after 5 service packs can't have a nice GUI network configurator.

OpenSolaris will have one years from now, but not a normal one. It will sneak around behind your back and do magic. Guess if you are a normal Unix admin and don't need some overthought abstracted Sun invention but just want to be able to select what interface to use or whatever, you are out of luck.

What about design stuff? Let's see, stupid example, Apple fit a whole new scheduler into 10.1. Solaris still has CPU affinity problems.

Broken by design stuff, like RBAC. Why can't you say "everyone in this group has this profile"? Why can't you specify which profile you want to pfexec a command with, if 2 profiles want to use a same command with disjoint privileges? FAIL. This stuff could have been fixed in the first update, but now the opportunity is gone and we are stuck with legacy.

Hey how come you can't mount a SMB/CIFS share on Solaris?

Right now Sun boxes ship with Solaris 10.


So then why do you and Sun laugh when people have problems with Solaris 10?

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